President Donald Trump said Monday he was open to a trilateral meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping, but said such a meeting would not focus on the war in Ukraine. Trump told reporters at the White House that he would participate in a summit with both leaders if the purpose was to discuss denuclearization. The comments came after reports that Putin had proposed that the three leaders meet on the sidelines of next month’s APEC summit in China to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.
They have not been doing much. And the same thing with China. We would have it to talk about nuclear weapons, denuclearization.
And anytime I can have a meeting on denuclearization.” Trump made room for the possibility of other topics to be discussed in such a meeting but reiterated that it would be “based on denuclearization.” “If President Xi wants to have it, I’d have it,” he said. The possibility of a high-level summit between the three leaders comes as Trump has waived sanctions on Russia and announced a diesel deal with Putin, while placing the blame for the four-year war on Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who earlier Monday briefed a bipartisan group of lawmakers about the conflict.
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